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UK nationalisation

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  • Sunday, 24 May, 2020
    UK business & economy
    ‘Project Birch’ plan to bail out stricken UK companies

    State to acquire stakes in important businesses facing acute financial difficulties

  • Friday, 28 February, 2020
    UK politics & policy
    All change as rail franchises reach end of the line

    Termination of Northern contract signals wider problems with privatised system

  • Thursday, 30 January, 2020
    Northern Rail Ltd
    Northern rail franchise to be nationalised, says UK government

    Arriva’s contract halted early as state takes over second operator in 2 years

  • Friday, 13 December, 2019
    UK general election
    Relief rally boosts sterling and stocks vulnerable to Labour

    Exuberance over Tory victory tempered by UK’s lack of post-Brexit trade deal with EU

  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2019
    Utility investors prepare for fight over UK nationalisation

    Labour pledges on water and telecoms trigger pre-emptive defensive moves and talks with lawyers

  • Sunday, 24 November, 2019
    Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
    Cost is not the main issue with Labour’s nationalisation plans

    The real worry is what happens afterwards

  • Friday, 22 November, 2019
    UK general election
    Labour leadership defends radical tax plans

    Manifesto condemned by business leaders and economists who claim it would hobble UK economy

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Labour’s manifesto adds up to a recipe for decline

    Jeremy Corbyn’s hard-left programme will wreck the UK economy

  • Thursday, 21 November, 2019
    LombardMatthew Vincent
    Centrica’s accounts read better than newspapers’

    British Gas owner is gaining more customers than it is losing, and they’re worth more

  • Promoted Content
  • Monday, 18 November, 2019
    Loyalty points problem in a nationalised supermarket

    From Clive Anderson, London W14, UK

  • Sunday, 17 November, 2019
    Patience Wheatcroft
    Labour broadband pledge is fantasy politics

    The move would leave an enormous hole in BT’s pension fund

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The Thatcher revolution is coming under threat

    Labour plans for a nationalised broadband network are misguided

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    Labour’s BT plans leave investors nervous

    Share price moves limited by belief opposition will not gain majority

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    Labour’s nationalisation wish list grows ever longer

    Broadband joins utilities, mail and PFI as targets and points of potential conflict

  • Friday, 15 November, 2019
    Instant InsightRobert Shrimsley
    Labour’s broadband plan shows nationalisation’s appeal

    Conservatives should worry that Corbyn is winning the argument

  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2019
    Contingency plans in train to take Northern rail public

    Troubled franchise ‘simply has to change’, says transport secretary

  • Wednesday, 14 August, 2019
    News in-depth
    Labour nationalisation plans risk ‘flood of claims’

    Investors seeking compensation could bring lawsuits under bilateral treaties

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
    LombardKate Burgess
    Corbyn shows utility of Labour in spooking infrastructure buyers

    Foreign investors look elsewhere to place bets after Labour shows its nationalisation card

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2019
    £2bn power grid auction derailed by Labour pledge

    Final bids for Electricity North West were due in June but process hit by nationalisation plan

  • Thursday, 4 July, 2019
    LexUtilities
    Labour nationalisations: weedy warriors Premium

    Some water groups’ shares have rallied as voter preferences fall for opposition party

  • Sunday, 23 June, 2019
    Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
    Britain needs cheaper infrastructure, not accounting tricks

    Public funds should be used if they deliver at lower cost

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2019
    Inside BusinessJonathan Ford
    Investors may rue demanding market value for UK utilities

    Relying on share prices does not always guarantee best or fairest outcome

  • Friday, 31 May, 2019
    Markets Insight
    Governments need to be fair if they nationalise

    Failure to compensate investors properly would probably trigger a host of lawsuits

  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2019
    News in-depth
    Investors attack Labour’s renationalisation plans

    Shareholders angry at party suggestion it would pay compensation below market prices

  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2019
    UK business & economy
    Labour blasts renationalisation ‘scaremongering’ by CBI

    McDonnell accuses business group of ‘continuing to put shareholders first’

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